Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-04-23
LOVES PEPPERS.

'1 suppose it is q rude thing to say, Dick, but wish your fair cousin was not coming today
 Dick Gordon smiled little.
 "You'll take that back within a week." he said, quie y.
 Shall IF" ironically. Then Miss Ethel Darrell will prove to be most unusual specimen of her sex.''
 She's hardly what one might term usual young lady," laughed Dick. "But you will see her at dinner"
 Rex, with a bored expression, flung his half-consumed cigar among the ferns.
 Il never enjoyed month as I did the last," he said, disconientedly, ''and now here conlos aiair society belle to spoil things generally. I've the strong est mind to pack up my traps and take tho evening train. You could make my excuses to your mother"
 ''I could tel her you were afraid of Ethel, n lau gied -..is {. .Sa,i; ...:.t yoS,' ro not going to make quite such fool of yourself, my boy. I'll guarantee she will be willing to dispense with your reluctant gallantries. love! looking Ut his watch, and rising with more haste than dignity, tits later than 1 thought. Wel hardly have time 10 make ourselves presentable for dia- ner."
 Rex followed bis example. and to- gether they were presently sauntering through the sunset toward Dick Cor don's home.
 There was a silvery twilight over the earth as they went across the shavcn lawn-two tall. sunbrowned, handsome youths, without a single spoil after their days fishing. They were laugh ing easily, when something drew kegi- nald Ormsby's eyes to ths balcony Gi- rectly above his head, where clothed in white, with great red roses in her belt and bosom, stood the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. in the very dawn of her glorious womanhood; with lips as crimson as her roses, haughtiIy, delicately curved, dewy. as those of q child; a broad brow, over which feil a few half-curled locks of dead-black hair, rendering it's creamy whiteness but the more marked.
 Somebody has said, "A moment is long enough for love to be bornI' and to some that strangely-sweet and strangely-sad dream comes as sudden as the flash of the lightning and as fraught with death.
 Half an hour la4er, Mira. Gordon in- troduced him to her beautiful niece. If he was unusually silent during dinner, Dick set 1t down to the fact that his friend was so aYerse to the society of fashionable ladies. And Miss Darrell seemed calmly unconscious of his pres ence.
 After dinner they went out to the wide balcony, where the summer moon light lay far as thought of the an- gels.
 Dick placed his cousin in pretty willow-chair, aud flung himself down on rug which was before it. Mrs. Gordon had taken seat witch Rex had drawn near Ethel for her Foi himself, he stood leaning against 2 stanchion, his arms folded, his lips si lent, his eyes on the landscape. Dick laughed as he watched him.
 Rex" he said, lazily, a twinkle 1T his eyes, twill you sing for us? YoJ were so eager to meet Ethel, anC pledged yourself SO willingly to help tC entertain her; and he sings with tho correct amount of feeling, l assure you." to Ethel; "he does.
 ''Oh, please do, Mir. Or1nsby" sec onded Mrs. Gordon. Ethel, my dear, , to her niece, Il can promise you { treat"
 Rex felt quite uncomfortable under the lifted velvet orbs. She was very fair in the moonlight, and the smile or her lips made her face very sweet anC womanly.
 Pray sing us something!" she said softly.
 And he obeyed her. In the moon light, in the hush of the summer eve ming, he sang one of the saddest thing he knew-choosing it, he knew no why-"When the Flowing Tide Come In"
 What had induced him to sing tha particular thingp Rex wondered, half impatient of himself, as he fancied tha